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...Jameson and Charlie Houghton will open the game at the defense posts. Jameson played forward last year, but has been shifted back to the defense in an attempt to undo some of the damage done to that department by the graduation of such stalwarts as Russ Allen, Traff Hicks, and Gene Emerson. Houghton is the only player on the squad who won his letter at defense last season. Bob Perkins and Laurence Carstein will serve as alternate defensemen...
Commissioners were concerned, however, with the present shortage of women fit to be mates of prospective Makerere alumni. Afraid that tribal wenches may undo the effects of higher education, the Commission suggested that facilities for giving a sound secondary school education to a limited number of young females be immediately provided. When this provision has been made, students at Makerere will be advised to marry during their college careers. Reason: "To preserve their morals...
...might remind the Herald Tribune--Since they are so glib about reminding us--that the best way to undo the work of Washington, Madison and the other founding fathers is to deride as "another how!" the anxious protests of those who see their most cherished liberties about to be legislated away. The Tribune errs dangerously when it adopts even for a moment the mudslinging tactics formerly peculiar only to labor leaders. When we reflect let us remember that temporary lapses like the Tribune's may tend to become permanent and that this is no time for any loosening...
...Ireland is hooey, Ireland is A gallery of fake tapestries, But I cannot deny my past to which my self is wed, The woven figure cannot undo its thread...
...love's old sweet song. Among apple trees and amid green woods, far removed from the bleeding tarts and coal-quay whores of Ulysses' Dublin, the young lover sings the praises of his "dove," his "beautiful one"-half angel, half virgin; he finally persuades her to undo the snood ''that is the sign of maidenhood"; and ends up in the classic predicament of all lyric lovers: starkly sitting on his bottom, all alone. A genius at mimicry. Joyce succeeds in imparting a flavor of old-fashioned purity to his verses; but behind this not entirely insincere...